macOS C: get name of current shell terminal

[moonman239]

I have a C program that outputs a color code that bash understands perfectly well but other terminals may not. The idea, then, would be to have my program color the string according to the rules of the terminal running the program. If it is running in "bash", it will output the string I have so far; if not, and there are no other supported terminals, the program will output a plain string.

 

[balamw]

Some solutions are discussed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3199893/howto-detect-bash-from-shell-script

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[cqexbesd]

I have a C program that outputs a color code that bash understands perfectly well but other terminals may not.

bash is a shell, not a terminal. I'm not entirely sure what you are doing but if you are outputing terminal control codes then you should be checking termcap/terminfo for the correct codes.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/terminfo.5.html